This Girl Was Stripped of Her Honor Society Title Because Of This Dress

Seriously? Seriously?

Cameron Boland is a junior at Fort Myers High School in Fort Myers, Florida and a member of the National Honor Society. She usually wears a t-shirt and jeans to school but decided to wear a dress on the day she gave a speech to run for the position of Lee County's National Honor Society historian. Cameron wanted to look nice for the ceremony.

Cameron ended up wearing a super cute white and blue ombre sun dress to the election ceremony at Ida S. Baker High School in Cape Coral, Florida and gave her speech like a pro. Soon after, voting took place and it was announced Cameron had won the election! Awesome, right?!

Well, her victory was short-lived, because soon after Cameron won, she was told that her title would be taken away because the dress she wore to give her speech was inappropriate since it had spaghetti straps and bared her shoulders. The district claims that other students were complaining about it to the Honors Society advisors, which led to her title being stripped.

Cameron told Wink News that while she was aware that there was a dress code at Ida S. Baker High, she didn't think it applied at the ceremony since it was an extra curricular activity and she didn't attend that school. Cameron tried to work with the school to fix the situation: She asked if she could put on a jacket she had brought with her, apologize, and redeliver her speech, but the advisors at the event said no.

Since the incident, Cameron's mother has tried to contact the school, the district office, and the school board to fix the situation because she feels they didn't follow the district's own process concerning dress code. According to the districts policy, when a student breaks the dress code, they should be issued a verbal warning first and shouldn't lose their eligibility to participate in extracurriculars until the second or third offense. Since Cameron was never warned about her attire and was allowed to give her speech and awarded her position, Cameron and her mom believe it shouldn't have been stripped after the fact.

According to ABC7, Fort Myers school district said in a statement: "[The decision to strip Cameron of her title] was a decision among the NHS advisors from each school, including that of their own advisor at Ft. Myers High School (who was consulted via phone). The decision to reinstate would likewise be a decision among NHS advisors. I am not certain when the advisors will meet again as a group."

It's so unfortunate that Cameron is being stripped of such a prestigious title for such a small, well-intentioned dress code violation, especially when Cameron was so willing to work with the school to fix the situation, and her losing her title so clearly is not in line with the school's own dress code process.

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